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Reference code
MACLEOD 2/1
Title
Account by Macleod, 'A secret service agent in south west Africa: Ironside's story as told to me and from notes he left behind' [1965]
Date(s)
- [1965] (Creation)
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Item
Scope and content
Unpublished account by Macleod entitled 'A secret service agent in South-West Africa: Ironside's story as told to me and from notes he left behind', detailing the service of FM (William) Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron of Archangel and Ironside, as a British agent in South Africa, German South West Africa and British Bechuanaland, 1902-1904, including the search for outlaw Boers north of the Orange River, 1902-1903, the Bondelzwart and Hereros Rising in German South West Africa, 1903-1904, Ironside's covert conscription into the German army disguised as a Boer transport driver, 1904. 1 vol.
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Name of creator
(1891-1984)
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Script of material
Existence and location of originals
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